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MQA - A True Revolution In Digital Audio PlaybackHaving written previously about the licensing and connection between MQA and Bluesound,we felt it was time to talk about MQA in more depth as it truly is a revolution in the reproduction of digital music.MQA stands for Master Quality Authentication and could potentially be the greatest innovation of the digital music era.And that is not said lightly.To recap,MQA is a technology that simultaneously improves sound quality whilst dramatically lowerin …

The Importance Of Music In Our LivesIt is hard to imagine your world without music.It plays such a vital place in entertaining and affecting our mood and it can provide an emotional attachment to special moments in our lives and hearing a particular song will bring back great memories.For pop music lovers,the early months of 2016 have not been good ones.It seemed we were still absorbing the news of David Bowie's death in January,when on April 21,we learned that Prince had passed away in his home …

The Distortion Of Sound - The FilmOver the last six or seven years,while we were worrying about whether DSD sounded better than high sampling rate PCM,or if a SPDIF digital interface was superior to USB,an ever expanding majority of the music-consuming public had by listening exclusively to MP3 files off their laptop and phones.To aid substantially in making a case against lossy audio compression,Harman International Industries,the company behind a number of respected brands including JBL,Infini …

Welcome Fostex Pofessional Application Headphones.We have just welcomed Fostex Professional Application Headphones to Stereophonic.Fostex is a company that not everyone is familiar with,but it has a long and famous history,being founded in 1973.Fostex,along with Tascam,pioneered affordable multitrack recording equipment and was the first to offer an eight-track reel-to-reel multitrack that used affordable 1/4 inch tape.It competes with Tascam and Yamaha with a full line of products for the …

CD vs Vinyl - Some Vital DifferencesThere has been a lot of talk lately about how vinyl sounds superior to CD.There is a story I read recently about a teenager who was saying to her mother that all her friends had been getting record players and that she wanted to get a turntable too.Her Mum said that she had now moved on to CD's,to which the girl replied:"Oh Mum,you are so old fashioned!"So is it just the extra enjoyment that you get from taking a record out of it's sleeve and playing it on a t …